Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination, Ledger
Автор: Sanders, Andrew Название: Authors in Context: Charles Dickens ISBN: 0199556091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199556090 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Charles Dickens explores the work of the most popular author of his age in relation to the contradictory impulses of Victorian society, looking at the vital interconnection between his life and his art. His novels resonate well beyond his own age and continue to be recontextualized on the stage, on film, and on television.
Автор: Briefel Название: The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination ISBN: 1107116589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107116580 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.
Автор: Goslee Название: Shelley`s Visual Imagination ISBN: 1107698618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107698611 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This first full-length study of Shelley`s remarkable notebooks shows how important illustrations, sketches and drafts were to the creative process of his published poems. Nancy Goslee explores the notebooks, the visual and textual imagination they reveal, and the wider implications for an understanding of the creative process of Romantic poets.
Автор: Byrne Название: Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination ISBN: 1107672805 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107672802 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, analyzing consumptive characters for insights into how society viewed this `dread disease` and its sufferers, and revealing the myths which surrounded this socially significant illness. It displays, also, how popular assumptions were used as diagnostic tools by a frustrated medical profession.
Автор: Cottom Название: The Civilized Imagination ISBN: 0521110971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521110976 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Civilized Imagination is a study of literature in a period of cultural change. As part of the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a great transformation occurred in the relations among aesthetic theory, literature, and society.
Автор: Deborah Vlock Название: Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre ISBN: 0521026881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521026888 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1998 study shows that many of Dickens` characters and plots can be traced to the Victorian stage. Exploring accounts of actors, actresses, and popular onstage characters, Deborah Vlock uncovers unexpected sources for some Dickensian characters, and throws new light on the conditions in which Dickens` novels were initially received.
Описание: Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge`s work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge`s intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy and theology. He finds symbol to be an essentially religious reality for Coleridge, one that partakes of the nature of a sacrament, especially sacrament as an encounter betwee
Описание: Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.
Автор: Markovits Название: The Crimean War in the British Imagination ISBN: 1107412641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107412644 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book studies the influence of the Crimean War (1854-6) on British literary culture, this book explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to the original `media war`. By looking at journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art, the book demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this event.
Автор: Solomonescu Название: John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination ISBN: 1137426136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137426130 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall`s eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.
Автор: Straley Название: Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children`s Literature ISBN: 1107127521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107127524 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An original and wide-ranging study that examines the convergence of evolutionary theory, educational reform, and Victorian children`s literature. It includes discussions of evolutionary ideas underpinning the work of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Описание: This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse`s major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history. Eugene Stelzig examines what it means to be an "autobiographical writer" by considering Hesse`s fictions of the self as an exemplary instance of the r
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